5 Best Backpacking Sleeping Bags8 min read

As many of you backpackers know, a good price doesn’t mean bad quality.

In fact, one of the best meals I ever ate cost only $11USD in Peru – the quality was excellent and the price a serious bargain.

Time Magazine even wrote a story in 2012 explaining how research shows that price and quality are not directly correlated.

In today’s world of hiking gear, the same principle applies.

Sure you can find very expensive gear — most of which has excellent quality — but you can also find awesome deals on gear that is still top of the line.

As anyone who has spent a night outside knows, a sleeping bag is one of your key pieces of gear.

In this review, I’m going to help you connect the dots, showing you my favorite value sleeping bags I’ve put together a list of ten – but if you have a suggestion, be sure to let me know at ben@hikersonrun.com

Wrapping Up

Your sleeping bag is a big part of how successful your hike is.

I know being on a budget makes it feel like cutting corners makes sense, but in today’s world there are so many great pieces of equipment out there — sleeping gear and otherwise — that you would be crazy to hike without a high quality sleeping bag.

Anyhow, if you have any suggestions that I missed, please email me or if you have experience with any of the bags mentioned above, I’m ben@hikersonrun.com

Til next time!

Sleeping Bag Resources

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